Nickelback - Here and Now

karaokeman

New album released this month (November 21st).

Anyone else looking forward to it/ hoping they will play an Irish gig in 2012?

I didn't get to see them in 08 at RDS Simonscourt so I'm really hoping if this album does well they will come back to play in Dublin.

Temaz

Awful band.

smokedeels

I noticed that the singers hair gets progressively shorter each time they release an album and for whatever reason I find it unsettling.

viadah

http://gunshyassassin.com/news/dating-site-discovers-nickelback-universally-hated/

Jimmy Iovine

viadah wrote: »

http://gunshyassassin.com/news/dating-site-discovers-nickelback-universally-hated/

Well I'd say the fact that they've sold 40+ million copies of their albums probably negates any point that the "article" was trying to make. Oh and I'd rank Bieber 10 times worse as a turn-off compared to them.

karaokeman

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

Well I'd say the fact that they've sold 40+ million copies of their albums probably negates any point that the "article" was trying to make. Oh and I'd rank Bieber 10 times worse as a turn-off compared to them.

That article is a load of s*** like a lot more written material you will find on the internet nowadays.

Nickelback aren't even the best selling band that garbage article names. Look at the bigger bands its trying to pawn;

Coldplay - sold 50 million records worldwide
Oasis - sold 70 million records
U2 - about 170 million records sold

Bieber would indeed be a bigger turn off than any of these three and Nickelback. Also on that list should be JLS, The Wanted, Jonas Brothers, McFly and Will Young.

Malice

Just because Justin Bieber is worse than Nickelback doesn't, as a statement, imply or prove that Nickelback themselves are any good. Fair enough though, if you like safe, middle of the road, radio-friendly American rock then they are right up your street.

Antomus Prime

I'm looking forward to the Album, Ive been a fan since silver side up. Granted theyre not the most intelligent song writers or the most talented musicians but I love what they do. I hope they do a gig too cause I've never seen them live either!

USERNAM3

Pause for the ' WORST BAND EVER ' cult .....

MidnightQueen

Why are ye haters even commenting on this thread if ye dont like the band??

Anyhow, I've loved Nickelback for years and have yet to see them live aswell. I do hope they do a gig in this country, wouldnt mind going to the uk to see them either. Cant wait for their upcoming album!!

karaokeman

USERNAM3 wrote: »

Pause for the ' WORST BAND EVER ' cult .....

If you want to bash Nickelback do it to your friends who like them.

As KittyKat said if you don't like Nickelback you should have ignored this thread in the first place as it is clearly only looking for opinions from fans:pac:.

Malice

KittyKat wrote: »

Why are ye haters even commenting on this thread if ye dont like the band??

To increase post count and, in my case to illustrate that correlation does not imply causation .

karaokeman wrote: »

if you don't like Nickelback you should have ignored this thread in the first place as it is clearly only looking for opinions from fans.

The thread title and first post mention the new album. Where, apart from your post, does the thread say anything about "only looking for opinions from fans"?

karaokeman

Malice wrote: »

The thread title and first post mention the new album. Where, apart from your post, does the thread say anything about "only looking for opinions from fans"?

Fair enough it doesn't but anti-Nickelback comments always result in arguments.

Its just how I see it anyway because anytime I've seen a Justin Bieber thread (or anyone else I don't particularly like) I tend not to comment because I know that would stir some upset with the people who are fans.

WinstonOno

karaokeman wrote: »

Fair enough it doesn't but anti-Nickelback comments always result in arguments.

Its just how I see it anyway because anytime I've seen a Justin Bieber thread (or anyone else I don't particularly like) I tend not to comment because I know that would stir some upset with the people who are fans.

i think most bands have fan pages for that, this is a forum for expressing opinions, good or bad

Malice

karaokeman wrote: »

Fair enough it doesn't but anti-Nickelback comments always result in arguments.

Well they shouldn't. If someone just posts "Rubbish band" or something then ignore them. They're obviously not looking to discuss anything. This is a public forum so it's going to attract a wide range of opinions.

karaokeman wrote:

anytime I've seen a Justin Bieber thread (or anyone else I don't particularly like) I tend not to comment because I know that would stir some upset with the people who are fans.

That's all well and good (and in fairness is to your credit) but your self-imposed rule can't, by its nature be applied to everyone and there's no point in someone getting annoyed if other people don't join in with a love-in for the thread subject.

And just to drag my post slightly on-topic, a few of my friends were at a Nickelback gig a couple of years ago, it may even have been that one in the RDS, and they had to admit that the band were excellent live.

adox

Never a fan of the band but I was never so thankful for them as I was one year in Slane when they were on the bill.

The whole day was an absolute snorefest. At least when they appeared there was some flames on stage, some swearing and loud guitars.:D Perked the crowd up no end, the sort of act needed at an outdoor event.

But as I stated, never a fan of them.......

WinstonOno

i was there that year, they played 3 different versions of 'how you remind me', took up about 20 mins of their slot, bored me no end

TheJinMu

:rolleyes: Oh, you guys!!! You're so cruel! :rolleyes:

Anyway, I love Nickelback. Their songs are all about s** and alcohol, whats not to love!?

Is the album coming out here that date?? I really hope so, cos thats my birthday Be kinda cool...
As for a concert here, I'm not holding my breath But once again, I really hope so!! Where do they usually post the dates?

EDIT: From Wikipedia: "Nickelback will be touring in support of the album in 2012, however they haven’t released any announcement yet"

viadah

TheJinMu wrote: »

Their songs are all about s** and alcohol, whats not to love!?

The fact that no matter what the songs are about they're still ****.

Sinfonia

adox wrote: »

Never a fan of the band but I was never so thankful for them as I was one year in Slane when they were on the bill.

The whole day was an absolute snorefest. At least when they appeared there was some flames on stage, some swearing and loud guitars.:D Perked the crowd up no end, the sort of act needed at an outdoor event.

But as I stated, never a fan of them.......

"Hey.. Hey man, what you got down there? You got some magic mushrooms? Hell yeah man, throw that **** up here, share that **** around"
I was embarrassed to be within a mile of that cringeworthy mother****er

TheJinMu

viadah wrote: »

The fact that no matter what the songs are about they're still ****.

So why do you listen to them? :P

viadah

I don't. But sometimes you can't help your ears being raped by a radio playing in a public place.

TheJinMu

Ha ha ha, touche!
Meh, I still like them. I'd bet there's bands you love that I'd hate too

viadah

Try Fit for an Autopsy.

irishh_bob

Malice wrote: »

Just because Justin Bieber is worse than Nickelback doesn't, as a statement, imply or prove that Nickelback themselves are any good. Fair enough though, if you like safe, middle of the road, radio-friendly American rock then they are right up your street.

never thought id find myself defending justin bieber but i have to say , hes a lot less naff than nickleback , still i imagine the canadian rockers will be huge in poland in around twenty five years

Malice

irishh_bob wrote: »

never thought id find myself defending justin bieber but i have to say , hes a lot less naff than nickleback

One for here methinks.

irishh_bob wrote:

still i imagine the canadian rockers will be huge in poland in around twenty five years

You're an expert on the future musical tastes of a country of nearly 40 millions inhabitants?

irishh_bob

Malice wrote: »

One for here methinks.

You're an expert on the future musical tastes of a country of nearly 40 millions inhabitants?

guess my drol sense of humour isnt too everyones taste , nickleback come across like one of those soft metal sounding bands from the eighties that were still popular in germany and eastern europe decades after they were out of fashion in the uk , usa etc

TheJinMu

viadah wrote: »

Try Fit for an Autopsy.

Well, just youtubed them... Definitely NOT my cup of tea.
Case and point

Malice

irishh_bob wrote: »

guess my drol sense of humour isnt too everyones taste , nickleback come across like one of those soft metal sounding bands from the eighties that were still popular in germany and eastern europe decades after they were out of fashion in the uk , usa etc

Oh we can make fun of the Germans alright, no one likes them .

Kold

I think being raped is better than being castrated. But only just.

cena

so who got the new album? Any good.

Antomus Prime

I got it last night, only got to hear one song on the way in to work this morning, the one they released, When We Stand Together..... Pretty good song. will listen to the rest tonight

MidnightQueen

Yea got it today aswell. I like Lullaby too, think that could be big yet and a couple other songs on the album. Overall its not bad.

Technocentral

With fantastic Canadian bands like Arcade Fire and Bombay Bicycle Club in existence I honestly don't understand why people listen to mindless drivel like Nickleback:(

Antomus Prime

Technocentral wrote: »

With fantastic Canadian bands like Arcade Fire and Bombay Bicycle Club in existence I honestly don't understand why people listen to mindless drivel like Nickleback:(

With plenty of threads devoted to such Canadian bands, I honestly dont understand why people would come in to a thread about a different band just to post pointless drivel...

Technocentral

Antomus Prime wrote: »

With plenty of threads devoted to such Canadian bands, I honestly dont understand why people would come in to a thread about a different band just to post pointless drivel...

If your happy to celebrate the mediocre over the transcendental then good luck to you sir.

mikom

With fantastic Classical composers like Wagner, Chopin, and Bach, I honestly don't understand why people listen to mindless drivel like Arcade Fire and Bombay Bicycle Club


Ahh, music snobbery.
If you are lucky you'll grow out of it.

Antomus Prime

Technocentral wrote: »

If your happy to celebrate the mediocre over the transcendental then good luck to you sir.

I'm happy to listen to music that I enjoy listening to, regardless of other peoples opinions. However I'm not happy to see pointless trolling comments in a thread about something I like. If you don't like a band or a type of music then fine, its your opinion, but why not go into a thread about a band you like and talk about them, rather than waste your time putting up pointless comments and annoying people.

Technocentral

mikom wrote: »

With fantastic Classical composers like Wagner, Chopin, and Bach, I honestly don't understand why people listen to mindless drivel like Arcade Fire and Bombay Bicycle Club


Ahh, music snobbery.
If you are lucky you'll grow out of it.

One never grows out of good taste, thankfully. Anyway, peace, we outta here.

Antomus Prime

Had a proper listen lastnight, really like it.... as always with nickelback, the songs aren't deep and meaningful but they're good fookin tunes!! Plenty of new additions for the gym playlist!!! lol

viadah

http://www.aux.tv/2011/11/nickelblock/

What a ****ing good idea.

the-waterboy

Silver side up was one of the first albums i ever bought and for 10 years after that Nickelback where without question my favourite band. Silver Side Up was true rock to me, not hard enough to be metal or soft enough to be well soft, well sung, well written and good solid music. then came out The Long Road, much like Silver Side Up but more produced but still for the most part a really good rock album. then All the Right Reasons followed even more produced but with some great songs but also many more of the soft rock radio tunes that Nickelback had become known for, which are for the most part just not very well written and pretty standard sounding musically. then Dark Horse continued this trend of becoming more over produced, less real, more radio friendly and cheesy. Now iv only listened to Here and Now twice but after all my year of devotion i can tell its the same again. Unfourtuly now Nickelback are no long my favourite band. Silver Side Up, The Long Road and All the Right Reasons are still some of my favourite albums (along with there first two albums which are pure grunge and sound an awful like pearl jam) but it seems my long years of defending them and tell people 'just listen to the albums' are over.
On a side note i say them live in Dublin in 2008 and they were great, they do know how to put on a show
P.S. the real nickelback to me is right here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkOPv5IesTU

viadah

Go listen to A Perfect Circle.

Antomus Prime

the-waterboy wrote: »

Silver side up was one of the first albums i ever bought and for 10 years after that Nickelback where without question my favourite band. Silver Side Up was true rock to me, not hard enough to be metal or soft enough to be well soft, well sung, well written and good solid music. then came out The Long Road, much like Silver Side Up but more produced but still for the most part a really good rock album. then All the Right Reasons followed even more produced but with some great songs but also many more of the soft rock radio tunes that Nickelback had become known for, which are for the most part just not very well written and pretty standard sounding musically. then Dark Horse continued this trend of becoming more over produced, less real, more radio friendly and cheesy. Now iv only listened to Here and Now twice but after all my year of devotion i can tell its the same again. Unfourtuly now Nickelback are no long my favourite band. Silver Side Up, The Long Road and All the Right Reasons are still some of my favourite albums (along with there first two albums which are pure grunge and sound an awful like pearl jam) but it seems my long years of defending them and tell people 'just listen to the albums' are over.
On a side note i say them live in Dublin in 2008 and they were great, they do know how to put on a show

Although I do think their last few albums have been really good, I do agree that they've gone down the whole emphasis on production and radio friendly road, but even though they aren't deep and meaningful songs, I still love listening to them!

Birneybau

Technocentral wrote: »

With fantastic Canadian bands like Arcade Fire and Bombay Bicycle Club in existence I honestly don't understand why people listen to mindless drivel like Nickleback:(

Antomus Prime wrote: »

With plenty of threads devoted to such Canadian bands, I honestly dont understand why people would come in to a thread about a different band just to post pointless drivel...

Technocentral wrote: »

If your happy to celebrate the mediocre over the transcendental then good luck to you sir.

mikom wrote: »

With fantastic Classical composers like Wagner, Chopin, and Bach, I honestly don't understand why people listen to mindless drivel like Arcade Fire and Bombay Bicycle Club


Ahh, music snobbery.
If you are lucky you'll grow out of it.

Anyway, Bombay Bicycle Club are from London, England, not London, Ontario.

Technocentral

Birneybau wrote: »

Anyway, Bombay Bicycle Club are from London, England, not London, Ontario.

I stand corrected sir, I of course meant Broken Social Scene, I like both and got name in post mixed up, so if you would allow me to replace BBC with BSS my original statement still applies.